Roving through different locations
Visual artist Nina Ross invites audiences to engage with ongoing issues of fair pay for artists through a playful sticker protest in unexpected locations throughout the festival.

These Romans Are Crazy: How Asterix and Obelix can help us understand the age of alternative facts

Saturday 30 September
12.30pm - 1.30pm

The Lock-Up

A performance lecture addressing how being historically hoodwinked as children has made us a passive audience to the lies our leaders tell us.
Matt Abotomy

Waking Up

Saturday 30 September
2pm - 3.45pm

The Lock-Up

In a world where socially engaged art is more important than ever, how do artists work ethically with communities?
Kate Richards
Madalyn Trypas
Kevin Bathman
Isabella Capezio

Critical Mass

Saturday 30 September
3pm - 4pm

The Lock-Up

Join Perth based performance poet Scott-Patrick Mitchell (SPM) for Critical Mass, an experimental, immersive poetry walking tour that aims to not only transform Newcastle, but you as well.
Scott-Patrick Mitchell

Feminist Pop Tarts: (De)constructing Pop Culture

Sunday 1 October
10am - 12pm

The Lock-Up

Four academics and artists talk about the intersections between pop culture and feminism – the good, the bad and the debatable.
Erin Fae
Emily Francine Palmer
Patricia Pender
Kali Myers

Criticism for Accountability

Sunday 1 October
12.30pm - 2.30pm

The Lock-Up

What is the responsibility of the critic to advocate for change? Three cultural commentators discuss the current state of arts criticism.
Cassie Tongue
Dee Jefferson
Sarinah Masukor

Questions of everyday feeling: media and the shaping of gender

Sunday 1 October
3pm - 5pm

The Lock-Up

This panel focuses on how gender and affects (such as joy, laughter and fear) are (re)produced through physical/mediated spaces.
Elianne Renaud
Megan Sharp
Dr Akane Kanai

Ceremony for Lost Natural Connections

Sunday 1 October
5pm - 7pm

Civic Park

In this temporary activation, mosquito coils are burnt at dusk as part of a ritual exploring lost connections to nature.
Marisa Georgiou